1 I resolved to wait only so long as the offering of a favorable opportunity.
2 We were resolved to succeed or fail together, after the calamity had befallen us as much as before.
3 At this moment I resolved, for the first time, to go to my master, enter a complaint, and ask his protection.
4 In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.
5 I did not allow myself a single word; but was resolved, if he laid the weight of his hand upon me, it should be blow for blow.
6 He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken; and, for this purpose, he let me for one year to a man named Edward Covey.
7 I was afraid that these seemingly good men might use me so; but I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.
8 I thought the matter over during the next day, Sunday, and finally resolved upon the third day of September, as the day upon which I would make a second attempt to secure my freedom.
9 My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.